All Safety News – Page 1341
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Network agility
Will the gap widen between the most sophisticated European players in network management and those that have not yet grasped the concept fully? By Luis Rivera, Lucio Pompeo and Alberto Martin. Five years ago, network management was still quite an abstract concept for most European airlines. Though many had heard ...
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BA hit by tit for tat ban
Air services between the UK and Nigeria were suspended in early June as a reciprocal ban of British and Nigerian registered aircraft assumed wider political implications. The UK Department of Transport banned Nigerian-registered aircraft from British airports in mid-May due to alleged poor safety standards. The Nigerian government ...
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Shuttle is in Wolf's court
Few expect US Airways to give up its Shuttle, but a move by American Airlines to purchase the prestigious east coast operation, as well as possible interest from United Airlines, has introduced another twist in the carrier's continuing battle with unions. US Airways operates, but does not own ...
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A red flag to a bull?
New scheduled operators Spanair and Air Europa have shaken up Iberia's traditional monopoly in the Spanish domestic market. Lois Jones reports from Madrid and Palma de Mallorca on how competition has prompted the Spanish flag carrier to get its act together. Never be fooled into thinking the Spanish market staid, ...
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Thai is hardly Star choice
As the razzamatazz around the launch of the five-carrier Star Alliance subsides, Thai Airways International is emerging as the weak link in the chain and there is growing speculation that the carrier could be dumped for two other Asian carriers. The other members of the alliance, Air Canada, ...
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Sun blazes a trail for SAA
The experience gleaned during the sell-off of state-owned South African carrier Sun Air should help ease the partial privatisation of South African Airways. But there are strong doubts that the flag carrier will be in any fit shape to meet the government's stated end-of-year deadline. Captain Johan Borstlap, ...
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Foreign cash saves Taesa
Taesa, Mexico's third airline, has dodged bankruptcy, received an injection of new capital from abroad, and is near a restructuring accord with its creditors that should, once completed, attract more offshore investors. Judging from recent reactions, though, some local creditors and Mexico's competition commission will remain nervous until ...
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TAM gets set for US debut
The TAM group is to launch Brazil's fourth international carrier and American Airlines has wasted no time extending its relationship with the multi-airline operator. The ambitious TAM group has established Transportes Aereos Meridionais as its intercontinental carrier, which could launch services between Sao Paulo and Miami as early ...
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New Labour sets trend in Europe
The conservative free-market revolution, which reached its high point during the Reagan-Thatcher era and lingered on into the mid-1990s, shows increasing signs of being politically vanquished as the industrial world moves towards the millennium. Although many of the substrates of the Reagan-Thatcher revolution live on in the shape of the ...
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Airbus waits for orders before committing to growth A340s
Airbus Industrie says that it needs a "significant" number of orders for the new A340-500/600 versions of the A340 before committing to full development and production. Despite that, sales chief John Leahy is "optimistic" that sufficient airlines to justify the $2.5 billion development cost will commit to the ...
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Airbus partners bicker on restructuring
Friction between the partners in the European Airbus consortium remained strongly in evidence during the show, with Germany launching thinly veiled attacks against the French position on restructuring the consortium. "We have no time to indulge in the favourite game of Europeans, which is summed up by the ...
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Airbus Industrie nets two new customers
Finnair and Brazil's TAM have become new Airbus Industrie customers, with orders for a total of 17 aircraft and options on a further 29. Finnair has chosen the Airbus A319/A320/A321 narrowbody range to replace its fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. The Finnish carrier will take an ...
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Canada considers sanctions over US overflight charges
Graham Warwick/WASHington DC CANADA IS considering sanctions that could be imposed on the USA if it fails in legal efforts to ban overflight fees introduced by the US Federal Aviation Administration in May. Options range from levying similar fees on US airlines overflying Canadian airspace to asking the ...
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PW100 checks urged
Following an engine fire on 21 May in a Skywest Airlines Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia, the US National Transportation Safety Board has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to order an immediate one-time inspection of all Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 turboprop engines. The checks would ensure that the gas-generator case drain ...
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ICAO plans CNS/ATM implementation conference in Rio
ACKNOWLEDGING that financing the transition costs is the biggest hurdle to introducing satellite-based communication, navigation, surveillance and air-traffic management (CNS/ATM), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) plans a conference on the subject in Rio de Janeiro on 11-15 May, 1998. ICAO president Dr Assad Kotaite announced the conference ...
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Bosnia ATC upgrade
Northrop Grumman is to provide Bosnia-Herzegovina with modernised air-traffic-control (ATC)equipment, including a monopulse secondary surveillance radar (MSSR). The US firm will also build an ATC control centre for en route operations. The MSSR is upgradable to full Mode S capability and the ATC centre will be equipped with the AMS-2100 ...
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SIAand Ansett study options for wide-ranging alliance
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is reported to be close to reaching a tentative agreement with Ansett on a potentially wide-ranging alliance, encompassing commercial co-operation and the possible purchase of equity in the Australian carrier. The two are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding as a first step towards ...
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Thomson-CSF and Siemens form ATM joint venture
Thomson-CSF Airsys and Siemens have formed a joint venture to offer air-traffic-management (ATM) systems in the market for "highly complex, integrated ATM systems". Thomson-CSF and Siemens have 60% and 40% stakes in the venture, Airsys ATM. It will be based in France, with operations in Australia, Germany, the ...
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BMW R-R signs up to power Tu-334s
BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW R-R) has signed with Russian manufacturer Tupolev to power its Tu-334-120 twin-engine regional jet with BR710-48 turbofans. At the same time, Honeywell has signed an agreement with Russian counterpart Aviapribor to fit the US company's avionics into Russian-made aircraft, with the Tupolev Tu-334 as one ...
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Continental Express is eager for small regional jet
Continental Express has converted the first 25 of 175 options it holds on Embraer EMB-145s. It has also expressed a serious interest in the smaller regional jets now being planned, as it ponders the move to an all-regional-jet fleet. The airline has ordered the longer-range LR version. The ...